Anthony Comstock (/ˈkʌmstɒk, ˈkɒm-/; March 7, 1844 – September 21, 1915) was an American anti-vice activist, United States Postal Inspector, and secretary...

often associated with U.S. Postal Inspector and anti-vice activist Anthony Comstock. The law was applied broadly for much of its history, before the scope...

Anthony Comstock, American morals critic Anthony Corallo, American mobster Anthony Crivello, American actor Anthony Crolla, British boxer Anthony Crosland...

States. Like many other sex reformers, Dr. Stockham was arrested by Anthony Comstock, who prosecuted a variety of sexual freedom reformers.Ida Craddock...

to a committee to obtain a minister for Norwalk. Anthony Comstock, 5th great-grandson Henry Comstock, 6th great-grandson An Historical Discourse in Commemoration...

Sanger identified emotionally with his wife's work and referred to Anthony Comstock as a victim of "incurable sexophobia" who lacked "the intelligence...

popular newspapers and periodicals of the day. The NYSSV was founded by Anthony Comstock and his supporters in the Young Men's Christian Association. In May...

embodied in the federal and state Comstock laws and named after the postal officer and anti-obscenity crusader Anthony Comstock, who proved himself officious...

Congress to pass the 1873 Comstock Laws. George Francis Train once defended her. Other feminists of her time, including Susan B. Anthony, disagreed with her...

Barbara Jean Comstock (née Burns; born June 30, 1959) is an American attorney and politician who served as the U.S. representative for Virginia's 10th...

Cancer (Los Angeles, 1962). A chapter is also devoted to the crusade of Anthony Comstock and the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice. Marcuse wrote...

of Anthony Comstock with Heywood Broun. Leech died of a stroke in New York City at age 80. The Back of the Book (1924) Tin Wedding (1926) Anthony Comstock:...

copy of Family Limitation to a representative of anti-vice politician Anthony Comstock. William Sanger was tried and convicted, spending thirty days in jail...

connected with the district. Frustration at this state of affairs led to Anthony Comstock's anti-vice crusade, which operated with Federal authority from the...

abortion. The Comstock Act of 1873 is the American equivalent of the English Obscene Act. The anti-obscenity bill, drafted by Anthony Comstock, was debated...

permanent collection of the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, after scandalising Anthony Comstock and his New York Society for the Suppression of Vice....

indecency and another in New York was targeted by anti-vice crusader Anthony Comstock, both after displaying September Morn. Over the next few years the...

birth control techniques that flew in the face of a law established by Anthony Comstock (Rod Steiger) forbidding the dissemination of information on contraception...

university. While a law student, Hoover became interested in the career of Anthony Comstock, the New York City U.S. Postal Inspector, who waged prolonged campaigns...

Island workhouse. Upon her release, Anthony Comstock immediately re-arrested her for violations of the Comstock Act. On October 10, Craddock was tried...

During this time, Summit was the home of America's "antivice crusader", Anthony Comstock, who moved there about 1880 and built a house in 1892 at 35 Beekman...

influenced by Storer, and were facilitated by the press. In 1873, Anthony Comstock created the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, an institution...

good. Comstock's name is possibly derived from Anthony Comstock, an early 20th century conservative politician known for his anti-obscenity Comstock laws...

Botsford Comstock (1854–1930), U.S. artist, educator, and conservationist Anthony Comstock (1844–1915), U.S. moral reformer and namesake of the Comstock laws...

crusader Anthony Comstock began a campaign to suppress vice. He found widespread support in Boston, particularly among upper-class officials. Comstock was...

accused numerous times, Restell appeared unscathed. Postal Inspector Anthony Comstock was an influential moral reformer, who sought not only to regulate...

Myriantheus the Ottomans refused to recognize him as Bishop of Kyrenia. Anthony Comstock founded the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice (NYSSV) in...

efforts of Anthony Comstock, whose intense lobbying led to the passage in 1873 of an anti-obscenity statute, known as the Comstock Act. Comstock was appointed...

became a "succès de scandale" in the United States in May, 1913, when Anthony Comstock, secretary of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, protested...

League was backed by many prominent activists of the time, such as Anthony Comstock, and by Edward Douglass White, who argued against it in the Louisiana...